Hat-adjuster.



L. ROSENZWEEG.

HAT ADJUSTER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7. 19m.

1',225, ?5$ Patented May 8, 1917.

LEGN BOSENZWEIG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT-ADJUSTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December '7, 1916. Serial No. 135,616.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IJEON Rosnnzwnro, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York. have invented new and useful Improvements in Hat-Adjusters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to a novel improvement in hats, the chief objects of the invention being to combine with ahat means whereby to adjust and tighten the hat on the head of the wearer in order to safeguard against accidental removal. by the action of the wind or by jolts, and to provide means for the elimination of the customary hat-pins employed by women to secure their hats, there being present in addition a further object of providing adjusting means of this character, which is simple, inexpensive and efficient, and which is adapted for manipulation by the wearer at any time desired.

The foregoing and other objects are obtained by the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a soft hat, a part, of the hat being turned aside in order to illustrate the application of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of a stiff hat, a portion of the hat being broken away to illustrate the application of the invention.

Fig. 3 is a detail view, partly in section, taken on a line corresponding to A of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail view, showing the device applied to a modified form of hat band.

In 'order to adjust and tighten a hat, which is somewhat too large, to the head of the wearer, the usual and well-known practice is to insert a folded piece of paper or a piece of felt or other material between the sweat band and the wall of the hat. This means tends to narrow the arc of the sweat band and to tighten the engagement of the hat on the head of the wearer at certain places. By means of the arrangement herein disclosed, the same result is accomplished, it is believed, in a more efficient and more practical manner. Instead of using an insertion to tighten the contact at certain places, the means I employ is adapted to contract and to advance from opposite directions portions of the hat so that the in terior thereof, more particularly the sweat band, is brought into even tightened contact around the head of the wearer. Another important advantage of the invention is that the adjusting means is combined with the hat so that it is ready for manipulation by the wearer at all times.

With more particular reference to the drawings, the numeral 5 denotes a soft hat, while the numeral 6 indicates a stiif hat or one that is commonly referred to as a derby. In these hats, 7 indicates the usual upturned sweat band provided. on the interior of the hat, and 8 indicates the band customarily employed on the outside adjacent the top surface of the rim. As shown in Fig. 1., I secure to the wall of the hat behind outside band 8 a plurality of spaced-apart fastener members as S), which are preferably arranged in two sets or series spaced-apart and in alinement, although it will be obvious that said fastener members may be secured to the hat in other suitable positions. Said fastener members consist preferably of small buttons, which are sewed or otherwise conveniently secured to the hat. While I prefer, as stated, to use buttons and to secure them as described, it will be understood that other means, such as small metal pieces or snappers having projecting parts adapted for engagement with an eye, may be employed to advantage.

For securement upon the members as 9, I employ an elastic connecting member 10, which is preferably provided on each end with a metal connection 11 bent upon itself at the side opposite the elastic to form an eye 12. The oppositely disposed eyes thus provided for the connecting member are applied to the fastener members 9 so as to contract and advance the walls of the hat as may be necessary to efiect its desired tightened engagement with the head of the wearer, it being obvious that the plurality of members 9, arranged in two series, provides a choice of selective means for the application of said connecting member. As shown in Fig. 1, I prefer to provide each side of the hat with fastener members and with a connecting member therefor in order the better to enable even contraction or indrawing of the hat all around. In order to effect adjustment, it will be obvious that the band 8 may be readily turned down from Patented May s, iota.

band is contracted and indrawn so as to adjust the hat to the head of the wearer. In a stiff or derby hat, owing to its unyielding character, I prefer to removably cover the fastener members, as well as the connecting members, with a single piece of leather as 14, on the inner side, or other suitable means for the protection of the head of the wearer.

In Fig. 3, I illustrate a sweat band constructed with openings or slits as 13, partly across its vertical width. The purpose of these openings is to enable the sweat band to be contracted without forming ridges of material between the oppositely disposed points of the securement of the connecting elastic 10.

Having thus described my. invention, what I claim is 1. In combination with a hat having a plurality of spaced-apart fastener members, a connecting member provided with an eye in each end for the purpose of engaging a choice of the fastener members whereby to contract the hat in such manner as to adjust it to the head of the wearer.

2. In combination with a hat, having a plurality of spaced-apart fastener members behind a band, a connecting member provided with means on its oppositely disposed ends for engagement with a choice of the fastener members whereby to contract and indraw the hat in such manner as to adjust it tothe head of the wearer.

3. In a hat, the combination with a band having a plurality of spaced-apart fastener members, a connecting member having an eye in each end for the purpose of engaging a choice of the fastener members whereby to tighten the band in such manner as to adjust the hat to the head of the wearer.

4-. In a hat, the combination with a band having a plurality of spaced-apart fastener members, an elastic connecting member provided with means on its oppositely disposed ends for engagement with a choice of the fastener members whereby to tighten and indraw the band in such manner as to adjust the hat to the head of the wearer.

5. In a hat, the combination with a band having openings partly transverse its width and having a plurality of spaced-apart fastener members, a member having an eye arranged in each end and adapted for engagement at will, with a choice of the, fastener members whereoy totighten and indraw the band in such manner as to adjust the hat to the head of the wearer.

6. The combination in a hat of two series of spaced-apart fastener members, means for securing them to the hat, an elastic connecting member provided with an eye in each end for the purpose of engaging a choice of the fastener members whereby to contract and indraw the hat in such manner as to adjust it as desired to the head of the wearer.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification.

LEON ROSENZWEIG.

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